Director's Notification of Dealing in Shares

Barclays PLC
23 August 2000


             NOTIFICATION OF INTEREST: COMPANIES ACT 1985 s.329


The independent trustee of the Barclays Group (PSP & ESOS) Employees' Benefit
Trust (the 'trust') notified Barclays PLC on 23 August 2000 that they had on
22 August 2000 released 3,252 ordinary shares in Barclays PLC to a participant
who exercised their award under the Barclays Group Performance Share Plan
('PSP').  The participant to whom shares were released is not a director of
Barclays PLC.

The trust is a discretionary trust for the benefit of employees and former
employees (and their families) of Barclays Bank PLC and its subsidiaries. 

Following this transaction, the trustees of all the Barclays Group employees'
benefit trusts hold a total of 7,596,855 shares in Barclays PLC in which the
following directors of Barclays PLC have an interest as potential
beneficiaries: Sir Peter Middleton, Mr M W Barrett, Mr D P Allvey, Sir Andrew
Large, Mr C J Lendrum and Mr J S Varley.